Patents by Inventor Kazuyuki Yamamoto
Kazuyuki Yamamoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240153685Abstract: There is provided a laminate that improves the electromagnetic wave shielding effect in a low frequency region. A laminate includes at least one non-magnetic metal layer and at least one magnetic metal layer, wherein the at least one magnetic metal layer contains an amorphous phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Yukito YAMAMOTO, Kazuyuki SATOH, Konosuke SAWA, Mitsuo BITO
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Patent number: 11964527Abstract: A vehicle stabilizer system, including: a stabilizer device and a switching mechanism to switch a roll suppressing function by a stabilizer bar between an effective state in which the roll suppressing function is rendered effective and an ineffective state in which the roll suppressing function is rendered ineffective; and a controller configured to determine whether a lateral acceleration of a vehicle body is greater than a threshold lateral acceleration and control the switching mechanism to render the roll suppressing function effective when the lateral acceleration is greater than the threshold lateral acceleration and ineffective when the lateral acceleration is not greater than the threshold lateral acceleration, wherein the controller employs, as a determination lateral acceleration for determining whether the lateral acceleration is greater than the threshold lateral acceleration, a smaller one of an actual lateral acceleration and an estimated lateral acceleration estimated based on a turning degreeType: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaaki Tabata, Kazuyuki Murata, Masashi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11947337Abstract: A device for a machine tool, which is detachable from an attachment part of the machine tool, includes: a data generating unit that generates data; a first communication unit that transmits the data generated by the data generating unit to an information processing device; a first control unit that activates and controls the first communication unit; a power receiving unit that receives power supplied from outside and transmits the power to the first control unit; a second communication unit capable of constantly communicating with the information processing device; a battery that supplies power to the second communication unit; and a second control unit that supplies power from the battery to the first control unit to activate the first control unit when the second communication unit has received an activation command from the information processing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DMG MORI CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11925107Abstract: To provide an organic EL device having low driving voltage, high luminous efficiency, and particularly a long lifetime by combining various materials for an organic EL device having excellent hole and electron injection/transport performances, electron blocking ability, stability in a thin-film state, and durability as materials for an organic EL device having high luminous efficiency and high durability so as to allow the respective materials to effectively reveal their characteristics. In the organic EL device having at least an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode, in this order, the hole injection layer includes an arylamine compound of the following general formula (1) and a radialene derivative of the following general formula (2).Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyuki Suruga, Shuichi Hayashi, Takeshi Yamamoto, Kouki Kase, Shunji Mochizuki
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Patent number: 11892071Abstract: A bearing unit includes: a thrust damper extendable in an axial direction of a shaft placed in a gearbox, the movement of which toward one side in the axial direction is regulated; a shaft receiver component held by the thrust damper on the other side of the thrust damper in the axial direction; a metal holder that holds the shaft receiver component in such a manner as to be detachable in the axial direction; and an oilless metal held by the metal holder and placed on the other side of the shaft receiver component, in which the thrust damper, the shaft receiver component, the metal holder, and the oilless metal are integrated all together before being incorporated into the gearbox.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MABUCHI MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20240012521Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus is used for processing a first image projected toward a target. The apparatus includes a processing unit for detecting that an object exists between a projector unit and the target, wherein when an object exists between the projector unit and the target, the apparatus determines an area of the object and generates a modified first image, based on the area of the object, for projection toward the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Ikuo Yamano, Shunichi Kasahara, Ken Miyashita, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20230383834Abstract: A bearing unit includes: a thrust damper extendable in an axial direction of a shaft placed in a gearbox, the movement of which toward one side in the axial direction is regulated; a shaft receiver component held by the thrust damper on the other side of the thrust damper in the axial direction; a metal holder that holds the shaft receiver component in such a manner as to be detachable in the axial direction; and an oilless metal held by the metal holder and placed on the other side of the shaft receiver component, in which the thrust damper, the shaft receiver component, the metal holder, and the oilless metal are integrated all together before being incorporated into the gearbox.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230344303Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, a motor housing, an inverter, and an inverter case. The motor housing and the inverter case are arranged in contact with each other. The inverter case has a side wall surrounding the inverter when viewed from above. The side wall includes an upper side wall located in an upper part of the side wall, a step wall extending from a lower end of the upper side wall, and a lower side wall extending downward from an end edge of the step wall. The side wall has a plurality of outer ribs extending in the up-down direction. The outer rib is connected to the outer surface of the step wall and the outer surface of the upper side wall or the lower side wall located inside the inverter case relative to the step wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Daisuke OGASAWARA, Jun MURAKAMI, Hiroki AKAISHI, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Mizuki NIHIRA
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Patent number: 11797131Abstract: According to an illustrative embodiment, an information processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus is used for processing a first image projected toward a target. The apparatus includes a processing unit for detecting that an object exists between a projector unit and the target, wherein when an object exists between the projector unit and the target, the apparatus determines an area of the object and generates a modified first image, based on the area of the object, for projection toward the target.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizunuma, Ikuo Yamano, Shunichi Kasahara, Ken Miyashita, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20230155448Abstract: An inverter device capable of suppressing generation of vibration and a puddle in a top wall of an inverter case is provided. The inverter device includes an inverter and the inverter case that accommodates the inverter inside the inverter case. The inverter case has a top wall covering the inverter from above. The top wall has a first inclined surface descending from a top part on the upper surface of the top wall toward a first end part of the top wall, and a plurality of first rod-shaped ribs extending from the top part toward the first end part. The first rod-shaped rib has a site in which a protrusion height from the inclined surface increases toward the first end part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Daisuke OGASAWARA, Jun MURAKAMI, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Mizuki NIHIRA, Keigo NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11635806Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of executing calibration for improving accuracy of gaze detection without causing a user to feel stress. The information processing apparatus, includes a marker control unit that changes, during calibration of an eyewear terminal, a display position of a point-of-regard marker displayed on a display unit of the eyewear terminal; a computational processing unit that computes an optical axis vector expressing a gaze direction of a user by a pupil-corneal reflection method, on a basis of a captured image that includes a user's eye imaged when the eye of the user wearing the eyewear terminal is irradiated with light from a light source, and the point-of-regard marker is displayed at a calibration point; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a variation of the optical axis vector computed for a plurality of the calibration points.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takuro Noda, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20230102677Abstract: In an electric power unit including: an electric motor accommodated in a motor accommodating portion formed in a housing; an inverter accommodated in an inverter accommodating portion formed in an upper portion of the housing; and a harness storing portion that is provided in the inverter accommodating portion and protrudes from an end surface of the housing in a motor-axis direction, at least one fastening portion that supports the harness storing portion from below is formed in the harness storing portion, the fastening portion is provided with a seat surface and at least one rib adjacent to the seat surface and connected to a lower surface of the inverter accommodating portion, and the harness storing portion is fastened to the housing by a bolt (fastener) inserted into the seat surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Hiroki AKAISHI, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Daisuke OGASAWARA, Shuhei NAKAMATSU
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Publication number: 20230100892Abstract: In an electric power unit which accommodates at least an electric motor in a housing, polygonal rib regions in which polygonal ribs are respectively formed are provided on at least two surfaces of an outer peripheral surface of the housing, and the polygonal rib regions are connected by a circumferential rib. Here, a first axial rib and a second axial rib extending parallel to an axial direction are formed on the outer peripheral surface of the housing, and the polygonal rib region is provided in a portion sandwiched between the first axial rib and the second axial rib. Further, the circumferential rib is formed over the entire part of the polygonal rib region in a circumferential direction. Note that the polygonal rib is a honeycomb rib.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Daisuke OGASAWARA, Yuki ISHIKAWA, Keisuke NAKATA, Jun MURAKAMI, Hiroki AKAISHI, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230096477Abstract: An information processing device to process a two-dimensional image generated by an imaging unit in a machine tool including an attachment unit to which the imaging unit or a tool is attachable, the attachment unit moving to image an image of a workpiece placed in the machine tool, the imaging unit imaging the image of the workpiece at an imaging position, the information processing device including a computation unit for (i) calculating a position of the workpiece based on an image imaged after the imaging unit has moved to a predetermined position based on machine coordinates of the machine tool, and (ii) detecting an edge of the workpiece from the two-dimensional image imaged by the imaging unit at an imaging position after the imaging unit has been moved from the predetermined position to the imaging position, and calculating a length of the workpiece from detected edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: DMG MORI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenta KANTO, Tomoaki YAMADA, Junichi KUBOTA, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Junichiro OKUNO, Keisuke YANAGIHARA, Takashi INOUE
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Publication number: 20230101010Abstract: In an electric power unit that includes: a motor accommodating portion and a gear accommodating portion in a housing; and an inverter accommodating portion and an auxiliary machine attachment portion formed on side walls of the housing, the auxiliary machine attachment portion is formed by a protruding portion having at least a first vertical surface and a first horizontal surface formed on one of the side walls forming the motor accommodating portion and the gear accommodating portion of the housing, a first rib extending in a horizontal direction is formed on the first vertical surface facing one axial side of the auxiliary machine attachment portion, and a second rib, which extends in a vertical direction with respect to the first horizontal surface and connects the first horizontal surface and the inverter accommodating portion, is formed on the first horizontal surface, adjacent to the inverter accommodating portion, of the auxiliary machine attachment portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Daisuke OGASAWARA, Jun MURAKAMI, Hiroki AKAISHI, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Yuki ISHIKAWA, Keisuke NAKATA
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Publication number: 20220352790Abstract: A drive device includes a motor having a rotor rotatable about a motor axis, a motor housing accommodating the motor, an inverter housing accommodating an inverter electrically connected to the motor, and a gear housing accommodating a gear portion. The inverter housing opens upwardly and is arranged beside the motor housing in a direction intersecting the motor axis. The inverter housing has a bottom wall, and first through fourth side walls extending upward from the bottom wall and surrounding the bottom wall. The first and second side walls face each other, and the third and fourth side walls face each other. The inverter housing includes a first rib extending upward from the bottom wall and connecting the first side wall and the second side wall, and a second rib extending upward from the bottom wall and connecting the third side wall and the fourth side wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Hiroki AKAISHI, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Ayumi NAKAGAWA, Shohei FUJIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220345009Abstract: A drive motor module includes a motor, an inverter electrically connected to the motor, a gear connected to a drive shaft extending in parallel with a motor axis of the motor to transfer power from the motor to the drive shaft, and a housing including a motor housing that houses the motor, an inverter housing that houses the inverter, and a gear housing that houses the gear. The inverter housing is spaced apart from the drive shaft in a radial direction of the drive shaft. The gear housing is located at one side of the drive shaft in a longitudinal direction. and the housing includes at least one rib connecting the inverter housing and the gear housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Hiroki YOKOZAWA, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Daisuke OGASAWARA, Keigo NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20220337134Abstract: A drive motor module includes a motor, an inverter electrically connected to the motor, a housing including a motor housing that houses the motor and an inverter housing that houses the inverter, in which the housing includes a wall portion including a first side and a second side opposing each other and directed outside of the housing, N (N is an integer of 2 or more) high rigidity portions provided with a distance therebetween along the first side and having higher rigidity than the wall portion, and a first rib protruding from the wall portion and extending obliquely at a positive angle from first to (N?1)-th high rigidity portions toward the second side when the N high rigidity portions provided along the first side are defined as the first to N-th high rigidity portions in order.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Daisuke OGASAWARA, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Hiroki YOKOZAWA, Keigo NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11365797Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor including a rotor that rotates about a motor axis, a transmission that transmits motive power of the motor to an axle, a housing that accommodates the motor and the transmission, and an oil pump fixed to the housing. The housing includes a tubular motor housing extending along the motor axis, and the motor housing includes a rib on a side surface facing the oil pump. The rib protrudes to a radially outer side from the side surface, and has a plate shape extending along the motor axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Ogasawara, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Jun Murakami, Yuki Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20220164059Abstract: An apparatus including a memory storing instructions and a control unit executing the instructions is provided. The control unit is configured to send signals to display first and second indicators on a display device. The control unit is further configured to receive first and second user inputs and, in response to the received inputs, to send signals to change a display state of the first indicator according to the first input. The control unit is further configured to send signals to change a display state of the second indicator according to the second input and initiate an operation to be performed based on a combination of the first and second inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki MIZUNUMA, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Nariaki SATOH, Ikuo YAMANO